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May 15, 2002       Share:    

Source: http://www.nypost.com/seven/05142002/postopinion/opedcolumnists/47843.htm

Not Friend or Foe

(New York Post) Daniel Pipes - The Saudi kingdom's rulers see themselves as leaders of the billion or so Muslims worldwide and the vanguard of a movement that eventually will vanquish and replace Western civilization, which they dismiss as corrupt and doomed. This outsized ambition derives in part from the Saudi state being "protector of the two holy places," the cities of Mecca and Medina. In part, it emerges from Wahhabism, the extremist vision of Islam that predominates in Saudi Arabia.

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